Does Atherosclerosis Have Negative Impacts on Early Adjacent Segment Degeneration After Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion?

Hironobu SakauraDaisuke IkegamiTakahito FujimoriTsuyoshi SugiuraYoshihiro MukaiNoboru Hosono

Published in: Global spine journal (2020)

At 3 years after surgery, the advanced AAC had significantly negative impacts on early R-ASD after TT-PLIF. This result indicates that impaired blood flow due to atherosclerosis can aggravate degenerative changes at the adjacent segments of the lumbar spine after PLIF.

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